MSNBC.com Swims Away With Web Traffic Trophy

Thanks to golden boy Michael Phelps and the rest of the Beijing Olympics, MSNBC.com overtook Yahoo News as the most visited current events news destination on the Web.

Over 52 million unique visitors came to one of the home of the Olympic games, an increase of more then 77 percent from the 29.5 million who visiting in August, 2007. The site drew 37.5 million unique visitors in July, 2008. Yahoo News and CNN Digital Network had 40.8

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