Google Shopping Quits Web -- Time to Quit Google Shopping

Google Shopping.  Google Products.  Froogle.  Whatever you call it, it used to be the world's far-and-away most complete online shopping search engine.  That was by virtue of being simply another form of the world's far-and-away most complete index of Web pages, Google Web.  "Used to be" -- because by the end of fall 2012, Google will have quietly junked its decade-old service of giving shoppers the whole World-Wide Web filtered of only those pages lacking something for sale, and replaced it wholesale with a completely unrelated middleman "service" blocking any visibility between shoppers and sellers who do not pay (and pay, and pay, and keep on paying...).  While, of course, continuing to make it appear exactly the same...apparently in the hopes that nobody important will notice.  Sneaky-sneaky, sir...ole'.