Google indexed site's address by accident. What do I do now?

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Published on 2011-03-08T00:57:02Z Indexed on 2011/03/08 8:19 UTC
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I was making a site for a friend of mine and he wanted to be able to see my progress as I worked on the site, so I decided to put the site on a server on my computer and enable access by a domain name registered to me.

It turns out that I forgot to set up a robots.txt file for the site and somehow Google indexed the site.

My question is: What do I do now?

As I understand it, Google doesn't like duplicate content and my friend could have problems when I upload the new site to his server.

Right now his current site, which only has a work in progress page, is first on Google when searching for relevant keywords and I really really don't want to damage that.

Is there anything else I need to be concerned about?

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