Technologist and media analyist Richard Holway predicts that Google will be superseceded by device-specific apps for the iPhone, iPad and for Facebook.

Holway posits that this will happen because the i's and the Facebook will subvert Google's sponsored search by leading users directly to brands and content owners.

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