If you're reading this, you use a search engine every day. Whether it's Google or Yahoo or whatever, search engines are the primary way that we find information and news. This is news to precisely no one.

A while back, Google came under scrutiny when a study surfaced showing that each search processed created 1-10 grams of CO2 which adds up to a lot of carbon when there are 200 million searches being made every hour or so.

So here's some news you might actually find useful: you can make all that online searching exponentially greener. Each of these 7 search engines either work to green up the search process in general, donate ad revenue to various green causes, or do their part to ease the burden of energy consumption.

The 7 Greenest Search Engines: