URL blocked in robots.txt but still showing up on Google search [closed]

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Published on 2012-10-08T10:30:00Z Indexed on 2012/10/08 15:53 UTC
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Why do Google search results include pages disallowed in robots.txt?

In my robots.txt I am disallowing a lot of URLs. Google webmaster tools says there're +750 URL blocked. The problem is the URLs are still showing on Google search.

For example I have the following rule:

Disallow: /entity/child-health/

But when I search some-keyword + child health the following URL shows up :

http://www.sitename.com/entity/child-health/

Am I doing anything wrong? Is is possible for a URL to be blocked using robots.txt and still show up on search results?

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