One out of 2000 pages ranks #1. Why don't others?

[freedata]

I have a company directory of all companies that specialize in widgets. All the pages have same URL format mysite.com/country/city/zip/Company-Name

All pages are generated by the same script. The title goes like "Company-Name City, Country, Zip - Widget Company Profile"
One of the 2000 pages ranks #1 in Google for the KW "XYZ company profile" where XYZ is the name of the company.

Why don't the other 1999 pages rank #1 or not even first page?
The PR for this XYZ company Profile page is 0.

[zerillos]

Hint: read the other posts in this section. Google is broken

[tristanperry]

To expand on what zerillos says ("Google is broken"): Google recently a fairly substantial algorithm change which has changed the rankings of a ton of sites. And in some cases (where - hopefully - it's just a case of false positives), good sites have been penalized and bad sites have stayed where they are or increased.

[tedster]

I would assume that some companies in your directory have a higher profile than others, so the individual search terms would vary for the number of possible pages in the search results. In other words, some company names generate more competitive searches than others, with more content on other sites.

Even so, having just that one URL with a first page ranking does seem odd. Has it been this way for long?

[freedata]

Ted, its been like this for the past 1 year consistently. Nothing to do with this new content farm update. The said XYZ company is always #1,2 or 3. There are few other companies that rank in 2nd page but 99% of the pages don't rank at all. The title, meta desc, h1 are generated with ASP script and its the same format for all companies. Content comes out of database but nothing alarmingly different either. The site (mysite.com) is PR3 or 4 for the main domain. All the company profiles are actually on a subdomain widgets.mysite.com