How Google loses social context again

Just saw this little UI nugget from Google on a result page:

It seems that Google is trying to link my Twitter account to my Google profile, for personalization purposes. However, the fact that it appeared in the search results page is somewhat disturbing. This is not the context we regularly relate to social applications, such as Twitter.

After clicking on “yes”, I got this option:

I refused that option: I can never understand Google profiles.

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