Google Search: Hang in there, KCK — Google Fiber work has finally started

It’s been 10 months since Google announced that Kansas City, Kansas, had won the Web lottery. The city would be the first in the country to get the full-on Google Fiber treatment. Whatever that turned out to be.

Since then, however, specifics have proved as elusive as bottles of Boulevard Chocolate Ale — who gets it? when? how much will it cost?

That all changed Monday. Kevin Lo, the Google executive managing the project, emerged from his unicorn cave February 6 to announce that infrastructure work was finally under way. On the Google Fiber Blog, he wrote: “We’re ready to lay fiber.” Assuming that’s not an unfortunate new gastrointestinal euphemism, KCK can let out a big woot.