A How To should rank better for "Make a cake" than a sales page or a review page.
A Review should rank better for "Best SUV" than a Table Of Contents page.
Just because you are the Underdog doesn't mean you should win. You should have a fair fight, but a good result is a good result.
I hate much of the stuff in Wikipedia. But there are some pages that were amazingly well written.
I hate eHow, but there was a brief time when they had experts in the fields they were writing about writing really great content. Those posts should do well.
Later we may let you turn off Right or Left Leaning articles. We may expose the feature we have that returns only easy to read results, a feature designed for ESL, and Youth searches.
But we will never release a blanket no more top million sites.