Question About Domains In Search Engines

If there is an order ... what is it and can it be worked around

[Telecaster1978]

If a company purchases a .com and a .net domain is there an order to which domain a search engine sees as being more relevent? For example: If a company bought both companyname.com and companyname.net and put the exact same sites up with different hosts, would the search engines only index the .com domain because it is somehow ranked as a higher level? Also, if the company were to put completely different content on each of the domains, but used the same SEO procedure for both, would they both show up on the same page in a search engine?

Thanks!

[Webwork]

None that I can point my finger to right now.

The future? As more and more sites come online? As the complexity of the www advances? As more industry specific tlds are introduced? Might there be a bias/weighting built into search algos based upon tld?

Big maybe. I'd hedge my bets in favor of a weighting for tld but when an algo weighs 100 factors or more the tld may not determine your fate.

Besides, building a business model around SE love isn't the best idea anyway. Start by getting some of those type-in domains if you can. :)