If Google’s services can respond to queries, they must be able to read them.
If A uses a cereal box cipher and B has a cereal box cipher, B can can make sense of encoded messages A sends them, A can ask about the weather, and B can reply with an encoded response that A can decode and read. B is able to read A’s decoded query, and B knew what the weather was, and responded to A with that information.
Security is not magic.
The thing that you find magical is not only actually possible but implemented and in use! What a day for you! Enjoy it, this is a rare event :-D
What do you think fully homomorphic encryption is, then?