The difference is that in the #1 point he was talking about not simply implementing the features of a competitor. If you notice company B has feature X and ther

The difference is that in the #1 point he was talking about not simply implementing the features of a competitor. If you notice company B has feature X and therefore decide you must have it as well, you may be in trouble if it turns out feature X isn't useful and is hard to implement. So, it's obvious that while Google wasn't the first search engine, they also weren't simply copying Altavista's feature list.