Moving multiple messages to another folder from a list of search results is super easy and fast. You just need to do a couple more clicks than the "Move To" option elsewhere in Gmail:

1. Select the conversations you want to move from the search results page.
2. Apply the LABEL that you want to move the conversations to from the "Label" icon (now they're labeled, but not yet 'moved to' that new 'folder'.)
3. Click the "Archive" icon (in the same bar of icons as "Label" above the message list), and you're done.

Don't ask me why Gmail doesn't just put a "Move To" icon above its search results. It would save a lot of headaches! But the directions I just listed are exactly the same process that Gmail uses behind the scenes when you use "Move To" anywhere else in Gmail. Every time you move a message from, say, the Inbox to another so-called 'folder', all that happens is Gmail adds the desired label and removes the 'Inbox' label. "Archiving" simply removes a message from 'Inbox' without moving it to 'Trash'.

See others' posts above for a more thorough explanation of why/how this is. Gmail's 'folders' are actually just

Moving multiple messages to another folder from a list of search results is super easy and fast. You just need to do a couple more clicks than the "Move To" option elsewhere in Gmail:

1. Select the conversations you want to move from the search results page.
2. Apply the LABEL that you want to move the conversations to from the "Label" icon (now they're labeled, but not yet 'moved to' that new 'folder'.)
3. Click the "Archive" icon (in the same bar of icons as "Label" above the message list), and you're done.

Don't ask me why Gmail doesn't just put a "Move To" icon above its search results. It would save a lot of headaches! But the directions I just listed are exactly the same process that Gmail uses behind the scenes when you use "Move To" anywhere else in Gmail. Every time you move a message from, say, the Inbox to another so-called 'folder', all that happens is Gmail adds the desired label and removes the 'Inbox' label. "Archiving" simply removes a message from 'Inbox' without moving it to 'Trash'.

See others' posts above for a more thorough explanation of why/how this works. Gmail's 'folders' aren't actually folders--it all works with labels. Even the Inbox is just a label, the one that Gmail 'opens to' when signing in; it's the label that Gmail applies by default to incoming messages.