I think your right about the content stuff its bs, i have some .infos on the first page for my keyword term, but title tag and backlinks mean more, google really do make it hard to rank for a .info and thats why .com or org rank quicker, but in the long run you'll have to build you backlinks to stay there. theres just to much bs flying around about pr, backlings from a range of ip address is what counts, and the content thing is crap because i've seen sites with under 50 words ranking on a .co .org and net so if it was about content then these sites just would not be there, check out this term and look at this site "womens snowboard pants" the site is womenssnowboardpants.net and tell me now its content that matters?