How to Find Pages that Google has Indexed
If you’re a webmaster that is curious to know which of your site’s page have been indexed by Google, simply use the site operator and perform a search query such as:
site:www.joemajewski.com
The results you see upon executing that Google search will be a list of pages that Google has indexed on your site. Although that may not be a complete list of all the pages that Google “knows” about, it is a list of all pages that Google finds relevant enough to list in their results.
Many people believe that the more pages that Google has indexed, the better, but that is not the case at all. It is much more beneficial to you to have 50 pages indexed that are all rich with content than to have 100 pages indexed with low quality content. This is why it is important to update your robots.txt file to ensure that certain pages get ignored by Google’s search engine.
For example, I prevent Google from indexing pages located within the Traffic Stats tab that’s located in the tab list at the top of my blog. The reason being is that Google will find dozens, or maybe even hundreds of pages within that section of the site that are filled with daily statistics, weekly statistics, etcetera, and in general, you only want page’s with relevant content to be listed on Google.
That’s my tip of the day, but don’t expect to find these on a daily basis. 
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How exactly do you get the Google search engine to ignore pages? Something about robots.txt?
Yeah, if you want to prevent Google from accessing pages within a directory, you can put a line like:
Disallow: /directory_name*
That will stop Google from getting into anything within that directory, hence the asterisk.