Determining if a new page is in Google index

[bigace]

This is probably a very stupid question but I can't remember how to determine if a newly created page is in the Google index. I can look in the logs to see if it has been crawled, but for the life of me I can't remember how to tell if it has been indexed. I don't mind being laughed at for being so stupid but if someone wouldn't mind telling me how to do this I would appreciate it.

bigace

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

site:www.yourdomain.com will list the pages on your site that have been indexed. Alternatively, and assuming that you have not been sandboxed, just do a search for a unique string of text from the page (within quotes).

[bigace]

Thank you for those ideas. But what if you have 2000 or more pages, wouldn't you have to look through the whole list to find the new page. I tried that and soon got very tired of looking.

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

You could try the text in quotes search that I suggested or just Google the actual URL, e.g.

[yourdomain.com...]

[bigace]

Thank you very much. That last suggestion was the one I was trying to remember.

bigace

[annej]

Sometimes they flit in and out so even if a page is in one day it is gone the next. Eventually it all seems to settle in.

[brianneedshelp]

I think you already got your answer, but I thought I would share a bit better how you might be able to search on google. Use the site: and inurl: to narrow down where you are looking, for example I can find a post where someone was helping me in the adsense forum (forum89) and was talking about monte carlo simulations by typing in this specific search at google I come up with the one post I am looking for:

site:webmasterworld.com
inurl:forum89
brianneedshelp
"Monte Carlo"

which looks like this in the address bar
[google.com ]

by narrowing down where you are looking it is usually easier to find what you want. So for your page you could search:

site:www.yourdomain.com inurl:partofpagename