Google peering in LAX

[Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us>]

Anyone know why Google announces only aggregates via peering and 
disaggregate prefixes over transit?

For example, I had a customer complaining about a path that was taking 
the long way instead of via peering and when I looked I saw:

Only 172.217.0.0/16 over Any2 LAX

That plus 172.217.14.0/24 over transit

Any inquiries to Google just get a generic "we're not setting up any new 
peering but we're on route servers" response for almost a year now. Or 
is it because they don't send the /24's to route servers and I'm stuck 
until they finish their forever improvement project to turn up a direct 
neighbor?