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Like everything else, my guess is that another company that has yet to be invented will challenge them both.
I do think Facebook is more geared towards the "new" internet. But it also is at risk of falling out of fashion and being replaced. Google is an older style internet company, but it doesn't really share that same risk. There have been many cases of ultra popular web sites falling out of fashion and fading away (MySpace) so it can and does happen pretty often.
If anything that's probably Google's ace in the hole, at least against Facebook. But the whole idea of a "search engine" will start fading in a few years. Kids growing up today probably will think of Google as the email company or the Android company and not the search engine company like we all think of it now. The problem with that is Google makes all of it's money from search, so if the web becomes less search centric, they need to find a new revenue stream.
Based on that, I would say both companies are not as rock solid as some people think.
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