TechCrunch
One of the more innovative features of the mobile web browser, Arc Search from The Browser Company, is its ability to search the web for you and then spit back a summary of what it learned, instead of returning a more traditional set of search results. The term came about following Apple's release of a finder app named Sherlock in the late 1990s, which offered features similar to a third-party finder app, Watson. Since then, whenever Apple ships a new feature or app that seems "inspired" by another, it's been referred to as "sherlocking."