In the recent years, the use of e-commerce based applications via Internet has grown rapidly, thus increasing the volume of data in the web. Therefore it necessary to have faster retrieval of required data from the web. This paper provides a comprehensive review of various image retrieval techniques with their problems. The survey presents various techniques used so far for the Image Retrieval from the Web based applications, in order to make more efficient way of retrieving the information by using image retrieval techniques. The survey describes which techniques are used for image retrieval and the problem faced during the retrieval process. Finally, based on the use of existing techniques and the demand from the real-time applications a shopping guide will be presented with enhanced features of image retrieval techniques named as Click-n-Purchase, where the input for this application is taken from the mobiles and the visual search of the related images can be extracted from web based fashion domain based applications, so that user can be able to search their favourite items in less amount of time.

Image Retrieval Techniques, Mobile Visual Search, Fashion domain, Click-n-Purchase

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