Why does it surprise you that people have no idea how any of this works? Why should they?

You use Google to find out anything you want. It’s how you learn new things and discover knowledge.

You can also upload images and stuf into google and retrieve them later.

Therefore google is for all intents and purposes The Internet.

You will also notice that a lot of people have completely dropped the word internet from their vocabulary. It is now called “wifi” or “data”