Originally Posted by jetjet

I know that my site is indexed by google (if I google site:mysite.com "keyword e xactly") it lists my page as a result.

so then I do a google on "keyword e xactly" and it comes up with 8 pages of results, but my site is not one of them

why is that? google knows of my site and that my site has that keyword, yet it shows only other sites with that keyword, and completely ignores mine

is there a part of google's algorithm to completely omit new sites from overall listings for established keywords?