I had to look it up, this word "meta" - oh, Bernie, you need to get 
with  MY sense of humor!!!, too. It is odd, but highly individual!. 
Here goes : meta== greek - among, with after, change , beyond, 
transformation, transcending, but related to disciplines dealing 
critically with the originals - meta-language, meta-morphoses, 
meta=physics -- it goes beyond, more beyond and BEYONDER. To get back 
to websites , I suppose the tags go beyond, are relating to tying to 
the original in some way. My dictionary has several pages of 
meta-constructs! Language is wonderful and sometimes wonderfuller!! - 
BTW that river in Columbia, does it transcend something? Does it go 
beyond its bounderies? Incidentally - metapher is another meaning 
stretcher! These word coiners in the computer industry, how  do they 
come up with all these expressions?
Marta
On Friday, Jul 4, 2003, at 10:00 America/New_York, Marta Edie wrote:

> But this is supposed to have something to do with keywords and the 
> like for a website, as Steve Brown wanted to know. I am sure he is 
> neither thinking of rivers or Metaphysics or Metamucil, although maybe 
> the word "meta'  ( is it a Greek syllable????) has somethig to do with 
> it.
> Marta
> On Friday, Jul 4, 2003, at 10:51 America/New_York, Bernard A Griffis 
> wrote:
>
>> I can enlighten you on Meta:
>>
>>    Me?ta   A river, about 1,102 km (685 mi) long, of northeast 
>> Colombia
>> flowing partially along the border with
>>               Venezuela.
>>
>> B Griffis
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> Marta
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