What is a <meta> tag in HTML?

The tag used to communicate with search engines is <meta> with the name="description" attribute. This tag is placed within the <head> section of an HTML document and provides a summary or description of the webpage's content.
<head>
<title>My Website</title>
<meta name="description"content="This is a brief description of my website. It contains information about various topics...">
</head>

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