I have a software product that I believe could be well targeted at
research professionals such as yourself.  I am looking to make and
maintain contact with a research professional who I can talk with and
learn from about the research industry.

More specifically I am interested in how you do your work, what tools
you use, what would you like to see and use, what websites you use to
do your research, perhaps how you might tackle a research issue.

If someone has to do a lot of Internet Searching, then nothing beats
http://www.copernic.com :)

So given Copernic, would it be reasonable to assume that everyone uses
Copernic and there isn't much room for a simpler search tool?

No

Check out http://www.pkpsoft.com/etc/  do you think this is something
any researchers might be interested in?