Emojis are becoming an increasingly important part of our life, and they are important to show feelings or expressions. And now GIFs, those nice (or not) moving images or animations, are increasingly popular to emphasize those feelings or expressions, so they are used more and more, and Google wants to make it easy.
Google bought Tenor in 2018. Tenor is a very popular GIF search engine. To give you an idea, it is the one that WhatsApp uses so you can search for its gifs. And now you can more easily search for GIFs from Google, since you will find an option to do so in Google Images.
Share GIFs more easily
It may take a while for the update to arrive. But now at search for GIFs on mobile you will have an option to share. Until now, if you couldn't find the GIF you wanted on the Google keyboard or in your application's search engine, you had to go to Google and copy the link to share it.
Now you can search the GIFs in Google as you could do until now, but you will have the button share which will share the GIF automatically, but also it will be shared as a GIF and not as a link. Which is very much appreciated since this does not cut the conversation so much since you do not have to go to the link to see the GIF.
At the moment this is only possible through the Google app, and not through Google from Chrome or another browser, although we assume that it will be available at some point, and that it will be sooner rather than later. Google usually does not take long to integrate their news to their entire suite that is available
Integrated search engines
In any case, it is becoming more and more common to have a GIF search engine integrated into each application. Telegram have Giphy integrated (putting @gif in your chat and looking for the gif you want). WhatsApp uses Tenor, the same search engine that Google uses for its images and, above all, for its keyboard, which has an integrated GIF search option.
That is, you may not end up looking for GIFs on Google. But it is possible that you will not find the exact GIF that you wanted, and it is possible that you will find it in Google, so now you may think of an option to search your GIFs due to the extra ease that Google is providing.