Froogle's replacement, Google Base, has been missing in action from the Google search results, but some sleuthing may have turned up the elusive service.
-- Captain Ramius and Jack Ryan confer on the value of knowing one enemy, The Hunt for Red October
Base service have proven an exercise in frustration for people who have been migrated from the older Froogle service to the gleaming expanses of the new product. Ina Steiner writing at AuctionBytes
Finding Google Base results in the Onebox section of Google has been less fruitful than plunge into Google's cold watery depths to find it:
...I found exactly what I was looking for - so my answer to Ina is: "
Google's answer to its Base (nee Froogle) users with the holiday shopping season rapidly approaching has been one of silence so far. With retailers itching for Halloween to pass so they can get all of their holiday displays out in force, and the calendar counting down to Thanksgiving, we won't be surprised to see Google 
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