'Checks to see if the search date is present
Arguments:
search_date (str): e.g. 06/01/2013 would be found with June 1, 2013
Returns:
bool: True if the date is in the first update and False otherwise.'

def is_first_update_date(self, search_date):

    return (search_date == self.q(css='.date-display').html[0])
