More and more, computers will serve to “augment humanity” by filtering and directing relevant information to users, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said Tuesday.

Schmidt said that search traffic tripled throughout the first half of 2010, and highlighted Google Goggles and Google Translate as two services that can use the smartphone as a sensor, passing information up to the service that’s stored in the cloud.

Google is “building social information into all of our products. So it won’t be a social network the way people think of Facebook, but rather social information about who your friends are, people you interact with and we have various ways we’ll be collecting that information.”